Everyone knows of Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter--the four seasons. Who they don't know of is their sister, Equinox, or how the four seasons came to be. Equinox is the daughter and Day and Night. People always considered her to be the oddball, the weirdo, the ugliest, the runt. She didn't care. When a trip to the villiage makes her feel the need to help someone, she sneaks out at night, hoping to not be noticed. She soon becomes friends with the hunter of the villiage, Orion. When she is given an exciting choice on what type of "power" to have, she soon realizes that it comes with a price. Will she be willing to pay the price? ***WINNER of RetellingsUnite Creation Story contest*** Word count: 9,490 Awesome cover by @cleverwren Highestrank: #150 in Fantasy

"Once bitten, they are no longer human. Once bitten, a beast awakens." They are the creatures of evil, the beasts that mutilate children and ravage entire villages in a nightfall. Hunted and killed, Lycan are to be shown no mercy, a known law enforced across the Kingdom of Harron. All the folktales and stories of the brutes, Lady Annalise had heard countlessly. Fear the lycan; hate the lycan. Yet, when the young Lady comes across one for the first time, she finds herself following curiosity's calls instead, wanting to learn more not only about the beastly side of the lycan she calls Gray but also the man behind the monster. Seems not everything is as black and white as Anna was told.

Schuyler believes that she knows the world she is in, and she believes she is in control but when she learns the truth, she is far from in control. With blonde hair, blue eyes and a smile so pure that one would believe she could do no wrong, innocence dripped from her skin and that was the way that Schuyler preferred it. In reality, she was far from innocent, and even further from pure but that was not what she wanted her prey to think. She needed her innocent facade, and her pure smelling blood in order to trap the wolves in her web, and once trapped the only escape was death. This is not your typical Red Riding Hood story, where Red allowed others to kill the wolves, and where she was too innocent to do anything. No, this is a gruesome, horrific retelling where blood is the main theme and deception follows closely behind.